An Eagle Stone was a piece of iron ore that housed a smaller stone inside, a type of geode. A few examples appear to actually be a type of unknown nut, its hardened shell containing the shrivelled nut inside. While serving as a status symbol for cunning folk, they were commonly used in folklore as magical protection for pregnant women, the expectant mother wearing it on her left arm while she carried the unborn child then moving it to the right thigh when labour began. Anothe

The Roaches is a gritstone ridge that spans across 10 miles of the Staffordshire Moorlands, its name simply a development of the French...

While in Portugal earlier this year I was very privileged to be granted access to an intact Neolithic barrowwith a full set of...

Much Marcle is a fascinating village that lies within the old borderlands between England and Wales, it's name quite literally meaning...

This mysterious dark boulder stands on a concrete base on the edge of a Birmingham cemetery - what on earth is it? It is the War Stone....

Kinnersley castle is a late Elizabethan mansion that stands off the road between Weobley and Eardisley in Herefordshire. It began its...

Witch marks inside a baptismal font? Yes, definitely, here at Lower Quinton in Warwickshire. Ritual protection markings, or "witch marks"...

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, passed away in the June of 918. Her nephew Aethelstan, future king of all England, looks up at her....

Who, or what, is the Green Man? Why does this bizarre face leer out at us from so many church arches and ceilings, and why does this...